Augusten Burroughs: Brunswick Stew
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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New York Times Bestselling author Augusten Burroughs has written several deeply personal memoirs including "Running with Scissors," "Dry," and his newest "Lust & Wonder."
Host Rachel Belle also talks with the delightful "Queen of the Cooking Infomercial" Cathy Mitchell (Dump Cakes!), and gets stuck between two warring sides over the hotly-debated origins of Brunswick Stew: a traditional dish in the American South created in either Brunswick, Georgia or Brunswick County, Virginia, depending on who you ask.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. This is your last meal. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host Rachel Bell, and every episode I interview a celebrity about what they would |
| 0:27.7 | choose to eat for their last meal, and then we explored the history of that food, the culture, |
| 0:32.1 | and whatever else we can cram into 30 minutes. |
| 0:35.1 | Today on the program, Augustine Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author of many |
| 0:40.4 | books, including running with scissors, dry, and magical thinking. Because you've written so many |
| 0:45.8 | memoirs about so many personal things, is it weird when you walk into a room to do an interview or to do |
| 0:51.4 | a book reading that everyone knows everything about you. |
| 0:55.0 | It's not as weird as you'd think. And it makes me feel like I'm totally comfortable asking |
| 0:59.9 | incredibly personal questions to complete strangers, even if it's like incredibly rude and invasive |
| 1:04.3 | and not at all my business. Do you want to ask me a rude invasive question? I can't think of one, |
| 1:08.6 | but when one comes to mind, I'll totally do it. |
| 1:15.1 | Augustine has a new memoir out. It's called Lust and Wonder, and it's about two of his life's big love stories. Andy tells us how he went from being an alcoholic advertising copywriter |
| 1:19.9 | to a stark, sober, bestselling author. If you've read a bunch of his other memoirs like I have, |
| 1:24.8 | it's actually a very satisfying update on his life. Also on the program, Augustine has a bit of his other memoirs like I have. It's actually a very satisfying update on his life. |
| 1:28.1 | Also on the program, Augustine has a bit of an obsession with QVC and the Home Shopping Network. |
| 1:33.8 | So I called up the queen of the cookware infomercials Kathy Mitchell, the woman behind those |
| 1:39.3 | dump cake cookbooks that we all like to snicker at. We tried a meatloaf pan, and they called it the dump loaf, and that was the end of it right |
| 1:47.5 | there. It's like you could go that far and go further. |
| 1:51.5 | So the dump loaf is not with us today. |
| 1:54.1 | No, it's not. |
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